Shijiazhuang

Sitting in the central south of vast North China Plain, Shijiazhuang City is located at the longitude of 114°29'E, and the latitude of 38°04'N. With the Capital-Beijing and Port City—Tianjin in the North, and Bohai Sea and North China Oilfields in the east, and the towering Taihang Mountains and the coal bases in China—Shanxi Province in the west, Shijiazhuang City was called “the Nation Capital's Suburbs”in the old times. It enjoyes convenient transportation conditions, called as “a gate from south to north and the throat from Hebei to Shanxi”.

In the city of Shijiazhuang there are not only historic sites including famous historical cities and commemoration places of modern revolution, but also natural landscapes such as mountain forest, lake, hot spring, etc., moreover, Shijiazhuang has the special resources of social customs, shopping, city sightseeing and so on.

The whole city now has 18 key relics under state protection and 105 key relics under province protection and 240 key relics under municipality or county protection. All kinds of cultural relics spots amount to 1200 or so. It has two national scenic spots (Mountain Cangyan, Zhangshiyan) and two provincial scenic spots (Mountain Fenglong, Mountain Tiangui). Moreover, it has one national famous historical city——Zhengding, one provincial famous historical city——Zhao county, 4 provincial vocational villages (Panlong Lake, Mountain Cangyan, Wentang, Zhangshiyan), one national forest park (Wuyuezhai), seven provincial forest park (Mountain Xiantai, Tuoliang, Nansizhang, Chizhi, Longzhou Lake, Sibaipo, etc.), and 6 national and provincial patriotism educational bases.

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